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Bulloch County
Georgia Milestones · 2025–26

How Bulloch County compares

A statewide ranking mostly ranks size and affluence. These are the fairer questions: how does this system do against districts of similar size, districts serving similar students, and districts at a similar poverty rate?

Georgia: 43.9%

English Language Arts results for 2025–26 have not been published yet. “All subjects” scores and rankings cover the published subjects only.

Proficient or Distinguished
44.9%
+1.0 pts vs. Georgia
Similar size
18th of 43
Districts testing a similar number of students
Demographic
1st of 21
Districts serving similar student populations
vs. poverty
+8.3 pts
Typical at 87% ED: 36.6%
Most aligned district
Ware County
Closest combined match on size, demographics, and poverty rate
Their score
39.8%
Bulloch County
44.9%+5.1 pts
Tested
3,830 (you: 7,056)
Econ. disadvantaged
87% (you: 87%)
20% SWD · 3% EL · 37% Black · 10% Hisp. · 44% White

Peer group 1

Districts of similar size

The 43 Georgia districts testing between half and one-and-a-half times as many students as Bulloch County on all subjects (7,056 tests taken), ranked by score.

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Oconee County
75.1%
5,682 tested
15
Catoosa County
49.4%
6,518 tested
16
Habersham County
47.3%
4,632 tested
17
47.1%
8,279 tested
18
Bulloch County (this district)
44.9%
7,056 tested
19
Colquitt County
44.7%
5,384 tested
20
Carrollton City
43.7%
3,776 tested
21
Bartow County
43.6%
9,170 tested

Bulloch CountyOther districtsGeorgia average (43.9%)Bars run 0–100%.

Peer group 2

Demographic peers

The 20 Georgia districts whose tested populations look most like Bulloch County's — matched on shares of race/ethnicity, economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, and English learner students.

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
Tested
1
Bulloch County (this district)17% SWD · 3% EL · 37% Black · 10% Hisp. · 46% White
44.9%
7,056 tested
2
Treutlen County17% SWD · 1% EL · 36% Black · 4% Hisp. · 53% White
43.9%
636 tested
3
Paulding County17% SWD · 4% EL · 32% Black · 15% Hisp. · 45% White
43.2%
20,847 tested
4
Emanuel County17% SWD · 3% EL · 38% Black · 10% Hisp. · 48% White
41.0%
2,407 tested

Bulloch CountyOther districtsGeorgia average (43.9%)Bars run 0–100%.

Peer group 3

Against the poverty trend

Proficiency tracks how many students a district serves in poverty, so a plain ranking partly ranks affluence. This places every Georgia district against the statewide trend — above the line is out-performing districts serving similar student populations.

GOSA has not published enrollment figures for 2025–26 yet, so each district is placed by its 2024–25 poverty rate — the most recent published. Scores are 2025–26’s own.

87% of Bulloch County’s students are economically disadvantaged. Georgia districts at that level typically score 36.6%; Bulloch County scores 44.9% — +8.3 pts above that trend.

Bulloch CountyGeorgia districtStatewide trend192 districts · poverty explains 44% of the variation · 2024–25 poverty rates

The 15 districts closest in poverty rate

Rank
District
Proficient or Distinguished
vs. trend
1
Pierce County87% economically disadvantaged
65.3%
+28.7 pts vs. poverty trend
2
Bleckley County87% economically disadvantaged
56.4%
+19.8 pts vs. poverty trend
3
Laurens County88% economically disadvantaged
55.7%
+19.5 pts vs. poverty trend
4
Charlton County89% economically disadvantaged
54.3%
+18.5 pts vs. poverty trend
5
Towns County87% economically disadvantaged
49.0%
+12.4 pts vs. poverty trend
6
Rabun County89% economically disadvantaged
48.8%
+13.0 pts vs. poverty trend
7
Atkinson County85% economically disadvantaged
46.6%
+9.2 pts vs. poverty trend
8
Madison County87% economically disadvantaged
46.5%
+9.9 pts vs. poverty trend
9
Wilcox County89% economically disadvantaged
46.2%
+10.4 pts vs. poverty trend
10
Bulloch County (this district)87% economically disadvantaged
44.9%
+8.3 pts vs. poverty trend
11
Wheeler County87% economically disadvantaged
40.7%
+4.1 pts vs. poverty trend
12
Ware County87% economically disadvantaged
39.8%
+3.2 pts vs. poverty trend
13
Rockdale County87% economically disadvantaged
27.2%
−9.4 pts vs. poverty trend
14
Mcduffie County86% economically disadvantaged
24.9%
−12.1 pts vs. poverty trend
15
Baldwin County87% economically disadvantaged
23.2%
−13.4 pts vs. poverty trend

Bulloch CountyOther districtsGeorgia average (43.9%)“vs. trend” is coloured only more than one residual standard deviation from the statewide line.Bars run 0–100%.

Source: Georgia Milestones district aggregates published by the Governor's Office of Student Achievement, All Students, all grades. “All subjects” weights each subject by students tested. Similar-size bands use the number of students tested rather than enrollment — it is published for every district and is the population the scores actually describe. Demographic peers are the twenty districts whose tested populations look most like this system's own, matched on shares of race/ethnicity, economically disadvantaged, students with disabilities, and English learner students in EOG Mathematics. The poverty comparison uses the share of enrolled students identified as economically disadvantaged in GOSA's Enrollment by Subgroup Metrics file, fitted against proficiency by least squares across all districts testing at least 200 students. Georgia identifies economically disadvantaged students by direct certification, and districts operating the Community Eligibility Provision report every student as eligible — so the measure compresses at the top and describes the trend, not any individual cause. See every First District system on the statewide ranking.